US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on Sept. 1 for "Digital variable reactance element, phase shifter, and impedance matching circuit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,179, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Digital variable reactance element, phase shifter, and impedance matching circuit" was invented by Bo Yang (Kyoto, Japan), Naoki Shinohara (Kyoto, Japan), Tsuyoshi Kajiwara (Kyoto, Japan), Takayuki Okada (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Takaaki Miyasako (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital variable reactance element includes digital capacitors and digital inductors connected in series or in parallel. Each of the digital capacitors includes a capacitor and a first digital switch connected in series or in parallel. The first digital swi...